3/19/1994

Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet issued a Top Secret report on March 19, 1994. Regarding efforts to capture and render Usama Bin Ladin from Afghanistan, it read: “None of the available potential capture units were judged to have more than a ten percent chance of capturing Bin Ladin.”

 – CIA, “DCI Report: The Rise of UBL and Al-Qa’ida and the Intelligence Community Response,” (Draft, CIA Analytic Report), The Central Intelligence Agency’s 9/11 File:, The National Security Archive, March 19, 2004